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On the above
picture you can observe a person who has tattoo on part of his
body, this is called moko, it is a type of face marking used by
Maori. You will come along a lot of person having moko on their
faces when you are visiting Christchurch, New Zealand. A tattoo
is made into the skin by inserting pigment. Tattoo is practiced
in different part of the world. It even existed for years ago.
It is said that tattoos come from Eurasian, it seems since
Neolithic time. Tattoos are also made sometimes on animals to
mark them. Tattoos have often been made as a symbol of religion
and spiritual devotion, to mark rank and status or used as rites
of passage. Nowadays people let tem get tattooed more for
comestic reasons, magical or religious. Some of them get tattoos
to show that they belong to a group, as criminal tattoos. There
was a time where people were forced to be tattooed; the ka-tzetnik
is one of the best known forced tattoos made on Jews during the
Holocaust in the concentration camps. In Thailand and Cambodia
as protection they make the yantra tattoo. |
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